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The Barger Leadership Institute is committed to creating collaborative research opportunities for faculty and students and their organizational partners both in the United States and internationally. The Institute will support partnerships of organizational leaders, University of Michigan undergraduate students and University of Michigan faculty who work in research teams to understand and strengthen organizational leadership, the lifeblood of successful organizations.
The Institute’s objectives for the Leadership Research Teams are to:
- Attract faculty who study leadership in organizations to engage in the activities of the Institute
- Encourage current UM undergraduate students to engage in leadership research
- Expose students to field research experience outside of the UM campus
- Provide students the opportunity to study the challenges of leadership in both domestic and global organizations
- Enhance awarded faculty members’ research agendas
- Promote long-term partnerships with leaders in organizations
Click here for the Request for Proposal.
Current Research Teams
Michael Bastedo, Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education and School of Education
Project Title: The Effect of College Presidents’ Charismatic Leadership on Organizational Behavior
D. Scott DeRue, Bank One Corporation Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations and Dave Mayer, Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations
Project Title: Leaders as Ethical Role Models in Organizations
Oscar Ybarra, Professor of Psychology
Project Title: Squelching Innovation: Social Dynamics in Organizations that Limit Idea Generation and Idea Revelation
Past Research Teams
Stephen Garcia, Assistant Professor, Organizational Studies and Psychology
Project Title: Leading the Organization through Entry and Bidding Decisions: The Impact of Competitive Social Comparison Processes
Michael Heaney, Assistant Professor, Organizational Studies and Political Science
Project Title: Leadership and the Antiwar Movement in the United States
Click here to visit Prof. Heaney's Research Team Blog
Victoria Johnson, Assistant Professor, Organizational Studies
Project Title: Transformational Leadership at the New York Botanical Gardens
Mark Mizruchi, Professor, Sociology and Ross School of Business
Project Title: The Changing Nature of Leadership in the American Corporate Elite, 1960-2010
Jason Owen-Smith, Associate Professor, Organizational Studies and Sociology
Project Title: Deviant Leaders in the U.S. Knowledge Economy
